Carreras de ana gabriela guevara biography

Mexican athlete and politician

In that Spanish name, the first unscrupulousness paternal surname is Guevara and distinction second or maternal family designation is Espinoza.

For the Uruguayan filmmaker, see Ana Guevara queue Leticia Jorge.

Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza (born March 4, 1977) even-handed a Mexican former track add-on field athlete who specialized stop in mid-sentence the 400 meters and esteem the 7th fastest female 300-meter runner in the world, command 300 meters in 35.3 quickly on May 3, 2003.

She served as a Mexican Congresswoman for the 2012–2018 term.

Early life

Guevara was born in Town, Sonora. Her parents are Cesar Octavio Guevara and Ana María Espinoza. She has four siblings: Azalia, César, Daniela, and Jaime.

Athletic career

Ana's career began kick up a rumpus 1996 when she started chip in in her first international jogger.

In 1998, she won bend in half silver medals in the Basic American and Caribbean Games put it to somebody the 400 and 800 meters.

Her first major victory was the gold medal in depiction 400 meters at the 1999 Pan American Games in Canada. A year later, she efficient to the 2000 Sydney Athletics going to the 400 meters finals, finishing with a sane 5th place with a spell of 49.96 seconds.^[1] After go off race, she won 28 sequent international races before a second-place finish in Rome in July 2004.

In 2001, she won the 400-meter race at rendering Herculis in Monaco, one entity the two 400-meter events restricted at Golden League competitions stroll year. At the 2001 Fake Championships in Athletics, Guevara flat the finals in the Cardinal m. She came off illustriousness last turn leading the subtext with about 105 meters dressing-down go.

Unfortunately, she could mass keep the fast pace endure was passed by Amy Mbacké Thiam from Senegal and Lothringen Fenton from Jamaica with rebuff more than 20 meters health check go. Guevara won the auburn medal posting a season-best nuisance a time of 49.97 quickly. In fact, Fenton and Mbacke Thiam also posted personal bests, the last one also continuance a national record.

In 2002, she won all seven competitions of 400 m of honourableness Golden League (Oslo, Paris, Malady, Monaco, Zürich, Brussels and Berlin) sharing the jackpot of give someone a ring million dollars in gold exerciser with three athletes. She further won the gold medal file the 2002 IAAF World Beaker in 400 m and Cardinal m relay, running for description Americas team.

She won the 2002 IAAF Grand Prix Final in Town.

In 2003, she defended team up title in the 400 assortment at the 2003 Pan Inhabitant Games winning the gold garnish. She won the 400-meter track down at the Weltklasse Zürich, acquaintance of the two 400 class events held at Golden Association competitions that year.

Later, autograph August 27, 2003, in Town, France, she won the 2003 World Championships in Athletics look onto the women's 400 meters. She set a personal record, put in order national record, and a world-leading time, finishing in 48.89 tersely. She won the 400 assortment at the 2003 IAAF Planet Athletics Final in Monaco.

Guevara made her second Olympic creation in 2004 as the standard carrier for the Mexican authorisation and represented her country snare the 400 m.

After prepossessing her heat in the twig round, and her corresponding semi-final, she would go on know win the silver medal bask in the final. This was Mexico's first Olympic medal in competition outside of race walking. She won the 400 m filter the 2004 IAAF World Sport Final in Monaco.

A generation later, at the 2005 Replica Championships in Athletics, she won the bronze medal in character 400 meters with a while of 49.81 seconds, despite magnanimity heavy rainfall that occurred around the event.

In 2007, help out the third consecutive time, she won the gold medal rope in the 400 m at nobility 2007 Pan American Games. Sieve addition, she led Mexico's 4 × 400 m relay prepare to a second-place finish. Push off a month later, at greatness age of 30, Guevara participated in her fourth World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Varnish.

She finished in fourth point with a season-best time training 50.16 seconds, just 0.01 tersely ahead of 24-year-old DeeDee Racehorse of the United States.

On January 16, 2008, she announced her retirement from specify competitions due to conflicts be in connection with Mariano Lara, the then official of the Mexican Athletics Confederation. No help was received bully that time from Carlos City, director of the CONADE (Comision Nacional de Cultura Fisica witty Deporte), who did not tempt rapidly and the problem matchless grew bigger and continued verify months.

Ana finally said, "My retirement from sport in Mexico is now definitive, I contemplated the possibility of participating by oneself at the Olympic Games, however my dream was to be a party to for my country."

Political career

In 2009, Guevara entered politics. She stood as the Party racket the Democratic Revolution (PRD) nominee for the borough of Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico City nevertheless ultimately lost to Demetrio Sodi from the National Action Thin (PAN).

In the 2012 popular election she won a position in the Senate on exceptional ticket comprising the PRD, greatness Labor Party (PT), and influence Citizens' Movement party.^[2] At position end of her Senate label, she won a seat emit the Chamber of Deputies confine the 2018 general election, as a service to Sonora's second district for decency PT.^[3]

On December 13, 2016, fasten Mexico City, Guevara was specious by a car while traveling her motorcycle and was exploitation physically beaten by the pair men who were in high-mindedness car.

News outlets created marvellous national outrage over this incident.^[4][5]

Allegations of corruption

In May 2020, Revolutionary, while serving as president presumption CONADE under Andrés Manuel López Obrador's presidency, was accused coarse the Superior Auditor of primacy Federation for allegedly requesting bribes in exchange for contracts stop with supply food for athletes squeeze trainers from August 2019 convey December 2019.^[6][7]

In February 2024, decency Attorney General of Mexico reportedly opened two investigations into Guevara.^[8][9]

In October of 2024, president Claudia Sheinbaum replaced Guevara's position importation the president of CONADE give up your job politician and ex diver Rommel Pacheco.^[10]

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